 | Henry Kett - 1803 - 512 lapas
...contains more Jimplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important frtftory, and finer Jtrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd." . f Bifhop Hall's Meditations. * Seward's Anecdotes, vol. %vp. 176. CHAPTER CHAPTER... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1803 - 422 lapas
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more important hiflorr, and finer ftrairs both ol poetry and eloquence-, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd. Birr that which (lamps upon them the higheft value, that which renders them, ftriftly... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 lapas
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry " and eloquence, than can be collected from all other " books, in whatever language or age they may have been " compofed." And is it not ftrange that thefe contemptible writers,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 388 lapas
...Sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. " The two parts, of which the Sciiptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions,... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 lapas
...Scriptures, and am of opinion, this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...can be collected from all other books, in whatever language or age they may have been composed." Is it not strange that these contemptible writers, as... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1810 - 236 lapas
...Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed." Were it necessary, Sir, I could give you a multiplicity of similar testimonies, from... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 lapas
...Lawyer, " and am of opinion this volume, indeptndent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...can be collected from all other books, in whatever language or age they may have been composed." And is it not strange that these contemptible writers,... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin - 1810 - 506 lapas
...origin, contains more fublimity and c' beauty, more pure morality, important " hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry and " eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language " they may have been compofed." However, then, the more grave as well as the light compofitions of human pens may be... | |
 | Samuel Taggart - 1811 - 414 lapas
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure i* morality, more important biftory, and finer (trains of '« poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from, all «• other books, in whattver age or language they may <* beea cwpofed." i k-3ed out of many, may ferve as a fpecimen. Jobis... | |
 | John Dick - 1811 - 302 lapas
...divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more Important history, ai.d hner strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, iu whatever age or language they may have been composed." ideas of composition, totally Different from... | |
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I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains... 
